Sparse Eigen Methods by D.C. ProgrammingBharath Sriperumbudur - University of California, San Diego, USADavid Torres - University of California, San Diego, USAGert Lanckriet - University of California, San Diego, USA

Information-Theoretic Metric Learning (one of the best paper awardees)Jason V. Davis - University of Texas at Austin, USABrian Kulis - University of Texas at Austin, USAPrateek Jain - University of Texas at Austin, USASuvrit Sra - University of Texas at Austin, USAInderjit S. Dhillon - University of Texas at Austin, USA

Agnostic Active Learning - not from ICML 2007 but exciting as it was discovered last year, theoretical bounds were proved this year in ICML 2007.http://hunch.net/~jl/projects/agnostic_active/agnostic-active.pdf